{"id":47129,"date":"2025-07-30T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/47129\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:44:11","slug":"dre-greenlaw-on-signing-with-broncos-it-meant-a-lot-how-much-sean-payton-wanted-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/47129\/","title":{"rendered":"Dre Greenlaw on signing with Broncos: It meant a lot how much Sean Payton wanted me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw has had a difficult journey to NFL stardom, and that made it personal to him when he hit free agency in March and had the opportunity to decide for himself where he\u2019d play.<\/p>\n<p>Greenlaw spent much of his childhood in shelters, group homes and the foster system before his high school coach took him in and eventually adopted him. A close relationship with his coach is meaningful to Greenlaw, and Greenlaw said he knew early on in free agency that he could have a close relationship with Broncos head coach Sean Payton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted me, you know what I mean?\u201d Greenlaw said. \u201cThroughout the whole time I was talking to Sean, there was never no ifs, ands, buts, maybe this or that. It was like, \u2018Man, we want you to be here.\u2019 And I was a foster kid growing up, so there\u2019s not a lot of times that people just wanted me. You know what I\u2019m saying? So it just made me feel special. It made me feel like this is the place where I needed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payton has been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/sean-payton-dre-greenlaw-plays-like-mike-tyson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">talking up Greenlaw<\/a> in training camp, and Greenlaw says the mutual respect he has with Payton as well as the Penner family that owns the team makes him feel at home in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people that\u2019s in the organization, Sean, the Penners, and then the guys . . . I just wanted to be a part of that,\u201d Greenlaw said. \u201cI wanted to be where I was accepted, where I was wanted it. And this was the right place for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw has had a difficult journey to NFL stardom, and that made it personal to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-47129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}